Aug 19, 2008

the towels too?

the marathon mobile which has now been dubbed the team bus which is usually parked at my husband's office is now parked in front of our house. not because we are going away to any bike race or camping trip, and not because we are having the white trash trailer park party i am dying to have; but because it got broken into.

twice.in one day.

my husband went to work yesterday and did his usual looksy-over the airstream only to find the door a little bit open. someone had tried to pry the radio out of the dash, they pried the little dvd players off the wall in the back bedroom and made a general mess of things. it didn't look like anything was actually missing though - so my husband went into the office, called the police & filed a report. and then, cause he was at work, he worked.

only while he was working, someone went back to give it another go. they broke in (again) gathered up all the things they had pried off the wall, dumped all the kids shoes out of a little milk crate that is at the front door and piled their loot into the crate. they didn't take the crate though, they just left it, all nice & neatly packed by the front door. perhaps they were going to take it with them on a third break in.

i went out to the airstream this morning to look for something and i saw the crate full of dvd players, some of the kids' videos (maybe you can get a lot of money for shark tales and night at the museum, what do i know?) some tools, and most curiously; the brand new towels i had bought in preparation for cyclocross races. (i've been getting the bus ready to serve as team headquarters at 'cross races this fall - towels are good things to have: they can be a nice mat for muddy feet, a cover for white couches and can wipe off muddy racers).

i look in the crate to see that the nice fluffy new towels were about to be stolen and i'm thinking.